Former superintendent gets new kidney

3:49 PM,
Jul. 18, 2013

Tim Hanner is shown here reading a book to White's Tower students when he was Kenton County Schools superintendent.

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Just six hours after having a new kidney implanted, Tim Hanner was posting an update to his more than 1,100 Facebook friends.

Hanner, the former superintendent of Kenton County Schools, underwent a kidney transplant Tuesday at Christ Hospital in Mount Auburn nearly eight years after being diagnosed with chronic kidney failure.